Thursday, March 28, 2024

Re: inertial props of BK limb

Paul X. Stoney

Dear Jacqueline,

Why don’t you drop a line to Dr Tim Bach (LaTrobe University Australia)

He did his PhD thesis on just exactly this subject – inertial

charachteristics of lower limb prostheses. His email is

[email protected]

He is also a really nice bloke and would be I’m sure happy to assist you.

Best Wises

Paul X. Stoney

(Prosthetist/Orthotist)

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>From: Jacqueline Schmit

>To: [email protected]

>Subject: inertial props of BK limb

>Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 6:20 AM

>

>Fellow listmembers –

>I am interested in finding inertial properties for a few different types of

>BK limbs. Specifically, I want to be able to change the anthropometry

>section in a gait analysis software package to accomodate children with

>prostheses. Normally, the foot and tibia portions are related to Winter’s

>anthropometric data, based on proportions of the subject’s whole body mass.

>While I have length measurements for a TT pediatric prosthesis with a SACH

>foot (and overall weight of this limb), I don’t have the mass distribution.

>I would also be interested in finding the radius of gyration. I am waiting

>for a few papers on this topic through interlibrary loan, but could anyone

>else offer some insight? Thanks.

>

>Jackie

>

>Jacqueline Schmit

>Graduate student in Biomechanics

>Marquette University

>Milwaukee, WI

>[email protected]

>

>

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